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Louis Aston Knight: A Study of Light and Water
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Louis Aston Knight
(1873 - 1948)
Summer Morning
Oil on canvas
26 x 32 inches
Signed and inscribed Paris
Provenance
Rehs Galleries, Inc., New York City, 1996
Private collection, New Jersey, 1996
Rehs Galleries, Inc., New York City, 2013
Collection Eurasia
Literature
Une même longueur d'onde, Louis Aston Knight / Alain Fleischer, Musée d'Art, Historie at Archéologie - Évreux, Somogy Editions, Paris, 2013, page 87, illustrated in color.
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EXHIBITION IMAGES
Louis Aston KnightA Cottage in the Meadow |
Louis Aston KnightA River Landscape - Fall |
Louis Aston KnightA Summer's Day, La Riviere |
Louis Aston KnightAlong the River, Beaumont |
Louis Aston KnightCottage by the River |
Louis Aston KnightCottage by the River, Launay |
Louis Aston KnightCottage Garden, Normandy |
Louis Aston KnightDiane's Cottage |
Louis Aston KnightDiane's Cottage in June |
Louis Aston KnightLe Pont Fleuri, Quimperlé |
Louis Aston KnightLes Vieux Lavoirs, Beaumont |
Louis Aston KnightLes Vieux Lavoirs, Normandie |
Louis Aston KnightPink Phlox, Normandie |
Louis Aston KnightThe Mill Stream |
Louis Aston KnightAlong the River, Beaumont-le-Roger |
Louis Aston KnightThe Blue Cottage |
Louis Aston KnightSummer Blossoms, St. Gertrude |
Louis Aston KnightA Beaumont-le-Roger |
Louis Aston KnightCottage by the River |
Louis Aston KnightThe Risle at Le Riviere Thibouville |
Louis Aston KnightThe Old Harbor, Dordricht, Holland |
Louis Aston KnightFlowers in Bloom |
Louis Aston KnightThe Charentonne at Serquigny |
Louis Aston KnightCottage Garden at Martigny |
Louis Aston KnightSummer Morning |
Louis Aston KnightCottage at Launay |
Louis Aston KnightThe Little Mill Near Bec Heloin |
Louis Aston KnightLa Varenne at Martigny |
Louis Aston KnightSunlight & Shadow |
Louis Aston KnightCottage by the River |
Louis Aston KnightLes Bords de la Risle |
Louis Aston KnightBeaumontel |
Louis Aston KnightA Cote de Riviere |
Louis Aston KnightSummer Garden |
Louis Aston KnightThe Walker Cake, Putney |
Louis Aston KnightFleur au bord de la Riviere |
Louis Aston KnightA Bend in the River |
Louis Aston KnightMy Mill |
Louis Aston KnightAlong the Seine |
Louis Aston KnightDiane's Cottage |
Louis Aston KnightSummer Evening, Beaumont |
Louis Aston KnightBeaumont-le-Roger |
Louis Aston KnightRio St. Aponal, Venice |
Louis Aston KnightApple Blossoms |
Louis Aston KnightMaisonette a Cote de Riviere |
Louis Aston KnightRiverside Farm – South Kortright, N.Y. |
Louis Aston KnightSummer Garden, Normandy |
Louis Aston KnightSummer Afternoon, Normandy |
Louis Aston KnightThe Winding River |
Louis Aston KnightCottage by the River |
Louis Aston KnightLe Soir, Dordrecht |
Louis Aston KnightLa Vieux Lavoir, Normandy |
Louis Aston KnightQuiet Corner, a Cottage Near Dieppe |
Louis Aston KnightThe Long Cottage |
Louis Aston KnightPont del Angelo, Venice |
Louis Aston KnightSummer, Beaumont-le-Roger |
Louis Aston KnightOld Mill in Normandy |
Louis Aston KnightThe Risle Valley, Normandy |
Louis Aston KnightBrittany Evening |
Louis Aston KnightMarket Place, Rouen |
Louis Aston KnightMarket Place, Rouen |
Louis Aston KnightHonfleur, France |
Louis Aston KnightSummer Flowers |
Louis Aston KnightGoupilliere, France |
Louis Aston KnightA Cottage at Goupillieres (Normandy) |
Louis Aston KnightLa Risle a Beaumont-le-Roger |
Louis Aston KnightGarden & Meadow, Normandy, Risle Valley |
Louis Aston KnightDiane's Cottage, Beaumont-le-Roger |
Louis Aston KnightSur le Soir |
Louis Aston KnightCottages Along the River |
Louis Aston KnightRisle Valley |
Louis Aston KnightDiane's Cottage |
Louis Aston KnightChaumiere, a bord de l'eau |
Louis Aston KnightDiane's Cottage |
Louis Aston KnightDiane's Cottage at Sunset |
Louis Aston KnightA Canal in Venice |
Louis Aston KnightThe End of the Village |
Louis Aston KnightA River in Normandy |
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Louis Aston Knight, was the son of the American expatriate artist, Daniel Ridgway Knight. Born in Paris in 1873, Louis, unlike his father, had the privilege to be brought up in a home where he was surrounded by art and music. Raised and educated in Europe, Louis attended the Chigwell School in England for his Liberal Arts Education and began his artistic training, under the guidance of his father. Later he studied formally with the great French Romantic painters, Robert-Fleury and Jules Lefebvre.
In 1894 Aston Knight debuted at the Paris Salon, starting a highly acclaimed career. Among his many awards, he won a Bronze medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900, an honorable mention at the Paris Salon in 1901, a gold medal in Lyon in 1903, a gold medal in Geneva and in Nantes in 1904 and Gold medals at the Paris Salon in both 1905 and 1906, earning him the title Hors concours as the first American to win two gold medals at the Salon in two consecutive years. Knight, was also made a Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1924 becoming an Officer in 1928 and eventually a Commander in 1934.
Louis Aston Knight is most famous for his French landscapes executed in and around his home in Beaumont-le-Roger. Aston looked up to Claude Monet, and visited him from time to time at his home in Giverny. He was particularly impressed with Monet's gardens, and strove to cultivate a garden as beautiful as the master's. Knight also awarded prizes each year to the neighboring peasants who kept the nicest gardens. This ensured him of good models for his cottage landscape paintings.
Gradually Aston Knight became well known in the New York art scene and traveled to the United States many times – painting scenes in New York, Florida and California. In 1911, Knoedler and Co. held an exhibition of his landscapes of the U.S.A. and France. His exhibition at the Levy Gallery in New York, in 1931 attracted much attention. In fact, "Art News" critiqued the show (26 December issue) and described his fame and plein-air approach:
A group of new landscapes by Aston Knight, the popular painter of the Normandy Riverscape, is the Holiday attraction at the Levy Gallery. Mr. Knight sticks closely to his well established formula, doubtless due to the tremendous acclaim acquired in his earlier years when Hopkinson Smith publicized him as the "painter in the high rubber boots" for Mr. Knight was not content with studying the action of the Normandy streams from the comfortable banks.... used to [put] on a pair of waist-high rubber boots and setting up his easel in mid-stream, paint the purling waters at first hand.
Aston Knight was a favorite of American Presidents in his day. In 1922, President Harding purchased Aston Knight’s painting entitled The Afterglow, to hang in the White House. Knight even held a private exhibition at the White House for President Coolidge during his Presidency.
Many of his works have had international acclaim and are housed in the art collections throughout the world, including: the Luxembourg Museum; Musee des Colonies, Paris; the Museum of Fine Arts, Toledo, Ohio and the Delgado Museum, New Orleans.
Exhibitions:
John Levy Galleries, N.Y., Nov. 24 – Dec. 6, n.d.
Knoedler & Co., N.Y., Dec 26, 1911 – Jan 6, 1912
Detroit Museum of Art, March 18 – 30, 1914
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, May 1918
Biltmore Salon, L.A., CA., Exhibition of Landscapes by Aston
Knight, January 26 to February 7, 1931
This essay is copyrighted by Rehs Galleries, Inc. and may not be reproduced or transmitted without written permission from Rehs Galleries, Inc.
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